Show THAT EEL BILL PAUL DAUL GALLONS GALLON'S title the eel bill bestowed upon a measure offered in n the last congress gress arid and nd passed by both houses for the relief of indigent indigent in in- members o of the august body hody strikes One oi as peculiarly apt The sug suggestion estion of Washington Wash Wash- ington newspaper men that the two hyo modest senators who sponsored it be given giyen medals struck truck off with wilh an eel rampant on two crossed palms is likewise a n. neat and fit lit idea It seems that on one on unnamed m senator seeing government mone money being made a available to about everyone else in the country wondered why congressmen and senators should be left out in tho the cold Failing bailing to get et an amendment to o the criminal code through when it became known to him that the president would veto eto it t if passed another senator knowing more of devious wa ways s 's of getting certain things done helped d to have the provision tacked onto the administrations administration's must housing bill Tricked in this fashion but unwilling to see sec the housing bill tracked sidetracked in the expiring moments of th the session the president signed it it No Now senators and congressmen who must get by on the pittance of a year car plus generous gen gen- erous rous mileage a are enabled to get et their hands lands handson landson on just about every kind of relief money the government has 1 S to offer to ordinary in indi cli- cli id All this seems to have 1 YC been done dono very cry much in the dark perhaps ps' because members real real- that the fall elections were close at hand It t w was vas s peanut politics of f the first order scarcely creditable to those who drew the he Y amendment t or those who failed to call it to aU attention nt on on the floor and nd obtain its defeat It Its It's is s doubtful i if many members of e either cither house I wil dare to take advantage of the opportunity to to borrow from government a agencies but those who do deserve to be he pilloried by their constituents Perhaps little money will be in in- Dl fu inside tol as s' s told Jold j Paul Pau Mallon in The Telegram Tuesday was a revelation reve lation of serving self that earns only r contempt for the two obscure lc legislators who engineered it Mr r. rr Mallon rallon named no names nains lie lic should have so that the tho pair oC of senators involved could be bo shelved into further obscurity at the first opportunity |